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cociu - hostsolutions.ro - NETSILVANIA | Move your services!
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How much thicker can the plot get? Lol
He sold IPs, he is selling the servers, topped with the modest "zero communication" frosting haha
Welp, someone said we didn't have drama lately.
maybe cociu upgrading new storage with Ryzen
I'm sure they will find a way
Does mr jesus still love cociu?
Yup!
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From the page it seems like being sold is;
A lot do not have quantities, but state that price goes down from 5+ pieces. Not sure if this is similar HW to what was being used as some seems fairly old (e.g. the SAS drives) although still not ideal.
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Page 69, the drama refreshed! Now we wait for "datacenter" to be sold.
OK, it's @cociu then. But I don't see a "plot thickening" but rather a strong indicator that cociu either sells off some systems he probably purchased cheaply in quantity because he doesn't need them anymore -or- possibly that he sells the very servers the clusterf_cked storage VPS ran on, both options not looking suspicious to me. I mean what is he supposed to do with boxes that are just good enough for cheap storage servers but probably quite unattractive next to the 26xx v4 (and even Ryzen) based normal VPSs nodes his other products run on.
Also keep in mind that this sale might also mean that he has more money for refunds (and possibly for enhancing his operations), which actually would be positive.
My updated guess: cociu stops selling storage products (and refunds all storage customers) and focuses on his newer normal VPS products.
Which is worth pointing out, as of right now, are not affected by involucration.
I might have to retract my previous statement that this does not look like a scam.
Downtime, non-existent communication skills and plain stupidity is in my book not a scam, but selling of resources while paying customers still cant access what they pay for is.
If you are going out of business then let the customers know before you pull the plug.
What would it actually take for you to recognize when you're dealing with a sinking ship?
I applaud the positivity, but god damn man, at some point even you should be able to see that he is on his way out..
In my case reboot via the panel worked
System life: 222 days, 16 hours, 47 minutes and 18 seconds
Largest uptime: 211 days, 18 hours, 55 minutes and 33 seconds from 02:19:30 11/16/20
Current uptime: 1 minute and 8 seconds since 09:06:36 06/16/21
I think nobody says that @cociu is not behaving like an a__hole. But that doesn't mean he's defrauding his customers.
I'm absolutely not excluding the possibility that he'll close HS down. It just doesn't seem very likely to me, but I of course accept that others might have a different opinion; that's not at all a problem for me. I just dislike bashing and kicking a guy who's on the ground and interpreting everything in the worst possible way.
@cociu be like.....
Cheers!
That in itself would not be a bad move, but you (intentionally I guess) left out the fact that his current storage products have a lot of customers that are very unaware of this happening (if this is what is happening).
Doing it without notifying the current customers of his storage products is a fucking bitch ass move, and to be honest, it crosses the line from neglect to scam!
He really should make a comment on here with an update.
Well, if he is selling off the hardware he needs to provide the services customers are still paying for, then yes, it does. He is taking payment for services he can not or will not deliver, that is kind of the basic definition of fraud.
I have somewhat defended cociu up until this point since I really thought all of this was just an extreme example of stupidity and nativity, but with the hardware being put up for sale, it's just to much. Everything points to cociu simply taking as much money he can and leaving the sinking ship, and he lets the customers go down with it.
Yes, he's behaving like an a__hole. But selling systems (and physically transferring them to the new owners at a later point in time, btw) is not a scam. After all he's not pulling out working systems and the customers get refunded anyway.
I myself am a customer (one cheap storage box, 3 yr deal). Frankly, I don't care whether he sells the node my non-working system is on or whether it's there but dead. Either way at the end of the day I don't have a working system. If selling the node means enhancing his capability to refund us I'm fine with it. >
@dahartigan said:
YES. FULL ACK.
(a) he obviously does not provide storage services anymore. That is the context.
(b) If he's still accepting or taking payments for those service then that's another mix of an a__hole and a stupid move - but highly likely unintentional. I mean let's be realistic; of bloody course putting his payment processing system on halt is not his priority. Getting those systems up and running again and/or trying to find the money to refund his storage customers is the priority.
I respect that view and can understand it but I don't share it nor do I think it's correct. One reason (among others) for not thinking he intends to scam us is the fact that he plays with open cards. Example: How hard do you think it is to get a prepaid mobile card in Romania? But that's not how he acts; he simply put his normal phone number in that offer (selling some servers and stuff) => he's not hiding the fact that he sells that stuff.
The lengths that you would go to defend him and/or find excuses for him are seriously astonishing :-)
Let's hope that @cociu at least properly wiped the HDDs, else the buyer is in for a treat.
I am afraid that this is the end of the line for his storage servers. Whether HS will return or not, I don't dare to speculate, but still wishing him all the best and that it at least allows him to settle the possible debt and refund some customers.
I wonder if it's this system for sale...
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/170126/kvm-2xe5-2680v4-2gb-ddr4-50gb-nvme-3-6tb-hdd-raid10-located-in-bucharest-telia-upstream/p1
I think hostsolutions issues next invoice like 15 days before renewal date, I dunno if it is like how WHMCS works normally, I have no experience with it. But yeah even on my monthly VPS I get invoice issued 15 days before renewal date and like since I have credits, it charges me automatically for it.
In which universe do you live where saying that someone behaves stupidly, ignorantly, and like an a__hole is considered "defending"?
Let me put it like this: There are people who love to judge, incl. judging prematurely and based on wild speculations. And there are people who like to understand what's actually going on. I tend to be one of the latter. And I like fairness and looking rationally at matters.
You keep saying that he will refund, amonth after his shit went down. Calling him an asshole doesn't change the fact that you are one of the very few people who still fails to see that he is in an abusive relationship. It honestly makes you look like you got something in return for defending the undefendable.
It has been a month. This is definitely not premature. This is not a pregnancy for us to wait for 9 months to see the results.
He gone.
Uhm. "Speculation" - IP-s are already sold off, now hardware is being sold and still a ton of storage KVM-s are down and people are charging back via Paypal cause they are not getting a refund directly.
Not sure in what world you live in but none of those is speculation anymore.
So that's where they ended up